Coate v. State

306 S.W.2d 727 (1957)

James William COATE, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 29138.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 29, 1957.

Rehearing Denied November 6, 1957.

Patterson & McDaniel, Houston, Louis M. Moore, Houston, of counsel, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Thomas D. White, Asst. Dist. Atty., Houston, and Leon Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is negligent homicide in the first degree; the punishment, a fine of $750.

Deceased met her death as the result of a collision between an automobile which she was driving and one…